Have we hit rock bottom yet? Probably not. The price of oil is dropping, so that’s good right? Not so much. The price of gas is still high and businesses still can’t get the credit or don’t want to invest in any more equipment or people or anything else. If no one buys stuff, there’s no reason to ship that stuff no one is buying. Plus if oil drops, everyone will forget and lose sight of becoming energy independent, like we always do. What’s the point of investing in new technology, new drilling or anything else, when oil’s so cheap? Remember when diesel was over $4.50? Huh? What? When? Britney’s sister is pregnant again? That was just a freak thing that happened, it will never happen again.

Florida is tough for me to get out of with a load on a good day. I thought there were a couple of things lined up, but they fell through. Normal stuff. The truck stop is almost full even in the middle of the day, not good. I’ve noticed a few trucks (moving style trailers like mine) that were already here when I got here and they’re still here, not good.

Is the election over yet?

I can’t listen to any more news. McCain is struggling and it doesn’t look good. I just want to point out a few things: The economy didn’t fall on its butt until this last year. The seven years Bush was in office were actually pretty good, even with the war going on. I keep hearing how there are people in Congress that don’t know how we got here. Figures, since they were the ones that put us here and in their arrogance they can’t see that putting their fingers in the market screwed it up. You would think they would know how to fix it, since they’re the ones that broke it. Admitting you have a problem is the first step in fixing your problem. Or something like that. That’s not going to happen with the arrogance in this Congress.

Joe Biden’s comment about how Obama is going to be tested his first six months was idiotic and if he knows something with some hard facts, he needs to explain himself. If he’s just running off at the mouth like he often does to make himself look important, he needs to just shut up.

But here’s an idea - The price of oil dropping is usually good for the US. For economies that depend on higher prices for oil, it’s not so good. The Saudi’s, the Russians, Venezuala and Iran to name a few. What do they all have in common? They all hate US. One little spark in the Middle East and oil shoots back up to $100 a barrel over night. What could possibly happen in the Middle East really soon? Especially if Barack takes office? Iran isn’t going to do anything with Bush still in the White House. Obama has already put doubts in people’s minds about our relationship with Israel and he has pretty much said he can talk his way out of any situation in the Middle East. While he’s busy talking, Israel is a glass parking lot and oil is even higher than before. Just a thought.

Those were the days.

We lived through the disaster of Carter’s energy plan and foreign policy, I suppose we can live through it again. Hopefully two years isn’t long enough for the Obama-Reid-Pelosi dynasty to do too much damage. Hopefully by next election Republicans will have regained their soul and their backbone and will take back a piece of the House to balance things out a little.

It took a Carter in order for a Reagan to emerge. But the pendulum will have swung so far left by that time, that the next Reagan will be more like a Ron Paul who was really ahead of his time, it wasn’t his time to win yet. I bet he would be doing pretty well if this had happened a lot sooner. Him or someone like him will be the one with the answers and the fortitude and commitment to actually do what will need to be done by that time.

And what will need to be done? Cut government, not with a scalpel but with a chain saw. Ron Paul wanted to just disband a lot of the Federal government because most of the bureaucracy has no real purpose and has no business even existing. Taxes will need to be cut like Reagan did plus a lot more. Some of the states are a little ahead of the curve and will realize what to do before the Federal government and that may be the only thing that saves us from total disaster.

Get your Recession Survival guide, you’re going to need it.

After the spending binge of the next administration, how bad will it have to get before both parties realize they can’t do whatever they want to do with no consequences? I’m not real thrilled about either choice right now, both will take us to the same place, the Republicans were taking us to the brink in a train, while the Democrats want to take a jet. I guess the sooner we hit bottom, the sooner we can recover.

Can it get any better? What’s changenism? And this guy is the head of the Finance and Banking Committee? Wasn’t he connected to Fannie and Freddie? Must have been someone else. It was those evil Republicans that did this. Barney Rubble wants everyone regulated except for the government. Who regulates the regulators? We the People. Or so I used to think.